We've tried painting a compelling picture of the ongoing drought in East Africa, and accompanying famine in parts of Somalia, but without anyone on the ground there we've mostly just used stats and short clips of video. There have been few personal

The drought and accompanying famine in East Africa continues to get worse: Three more regions of Somalia have been declared famine zones--defined as places where at least 20% of households face severe shortages and when more than 2 people in 10,000 die

Some updates on the ongoing situation in the Horn of Africa, where thousands of people are being forced to flee fromrecord-breaking drought and, in certain places, outright famine--all of which is, at least in part,

Twenty-plus people have died from the extreme heat that's been gripping half of the United States for the past several days. But humans aren't the only ones dropping dead: The Mitchell, South Dakota Daily Republic reports that at least 1,500 cattle

With half of the United States under heat advisories, 22 people dead (and counting) from the extreme weather, the Horn of Africa experiencing the strongest drought in over half a century and famine conditions

The epic drought conditions in the Horn of Africa and East Africa that first began coming to light about ten days ago continue to intensify, with what are in effect climate refugees streaming into parts of Somalia and Kenya.

Record breaking extreme weather isn't just plaguing the Midwest: Colombia has had 5-6 times more rainfall than usual for the past ten months--which has killed 425 people so far, covered 1 million hectares with water, and left 3 million people as what

Echoes of what contributed to catastrophic flooding in Pakistan last summer: Illegal logging by a timber mafia ("a cedar mafia, an organized mafia") is felling so many of Morocco's iconic cedar trees that the nation's

So much of environmentalism is about looking forward. Looking forward to the more socially and ecologically sustainable world we're trying to create. Looking forward via climate modeling, projections of energy use,

Last Autumn, the German government announced plans to extend the lives of most of the nuclear power plants in Germany, by changing a law that limited the lifespan to a significantly shorter period than safety

Earthquakes, like the one that struck in Christchurch, New Zealand yesterday, rank among the most devastating natural disasters, capable of leveling cities and causing extensive loss of life -- largely because they are so

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck New Zealand's South Island city of Christchurch just before 1 pm local time. Unlike the 7.1 Richter scale quake which occurred in September of 2010 this one has caused extensive

Photo: Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones: Parliament Square
Time Out, London's weekly events-listing magazine, has asked experts to describe the impact of great catastrophes on the capital city. Many are related to climate change and the outlook is

We know that illegal logging contributed to the devastation caused by last summer's flooding in Pakistan, when up to 20% of the nation was underwater. New research now sheds light on how so much rain fell: A rogue

For the last few days, a dog named Leao has refused to leave the grounds of makeshift cemetery for victims of the worst natural disaster ever to hit Brazil. There, beneath the moist, red mud, lies his owner, Cristina Maria